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10 Reasons Why Some People Will Never Get Organized

by Audrey Berry Last Updated on October 14, 2018 Leave a Comment

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Have you ever noticed how some people never seem to make any headway with organization?  If you’re like me, you sometimes get discouraged at your own lack of progress.  So what is it that seems to hold us back year after year?  At lifehack.org,  Kayiba Mpoyi gives 10 reasons why some people will never succeed.  Let’s take a look at how these might apply to organization. 1. They don’t understand the value of time When it comes to organization, you actually have to put in the hours to make … [Read more...] about 10 Reasons Why Some People Will Never Get Organized

Filed Under: Mindset Tagged With: mindset, procrastination, take action

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Two Minutes: A List of Things You Can Do Around the House

by Audrey Berry Last Updated on October 12, 2020 Leave a Comment

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In a previous post about demolishing piles, I ended at the point of me starting to do items in my “Take Action” box that take two minutes or less.  Why that length of time?  David Allen says in his book Getting Things Done, “The rationale for the two-minute rule is that that’s more or less the point where it starts taking longer to store and track an item than to deal with it the first time it’s in your hands—in other words, it’s the efficiency cutoff.”  Get it? The efficiency cutoff means that … [Read more...] about Two Minutes: A List of Things You Can Do Around the House

Filed Under: Chores Tagged With: list, procrastination, take action

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